MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &<?. S3 



leaving ugly dead ftubs, which will infallibly bring on the 

 canker. Thefe fhoots may be cut in the Spring to about a 

 couple of eyes, as Duke Cherries, which will form a number 

 of flower-buds, as appears in Plate IV. Fig. i. Fig. 2. is an 

 old branch, to {hew the manner in which the fpurs are 

 formed when the old method of pruning is followed, and the 

 barren unproductive flate of the tree. 



As Cherries are a very considerable article of traffic in the 

 London markets, and the markets of mod towns throughout 

 the kingdom, employing fuch a great number of people du- 

 ring the Summer feafon in gathering, carrying to market, 

 and felling them, the raifing of them is certainly worth any 

 gentleman's while, efpecially as the trees may be rendered 

 ornamental as well as profitable, by planting them in fhrub- 

 beries, &c. * Gentlemen of fmall fortune, who are at a great 

 expence with their gardens and plantations, may in a great 

 meafnre reimburfe themfelves by felling their Cherries and 

 other fruit (for which there will be plenty of chapmen), and 

 thus enjoy at an eafy rate the pleafures of a rational and ufeful 

 recreation. 



In all parts of the country, there are perfons employed in 

 collecting fruit for the Markets, and to hawk it about from 

 place to place ; and furely it is much better to fell it to them, 

 than to let it rot on the ground, or be devoured by birds and 

 infects. 



regular fupply to fill up the walls. They fliould be pruned and nailed at the fame time 

 with other Cherries., either in Autumn or in the month of March ; but we prefer Spring 

 pruning. 



* At Afhted-park, the feat of Richard Bagot Howard, Efq. near Epfom, there is a 

 Cherry-tree between fifty and fixty feet high ; and, at four feet from the ground, nine 

 feet fix inches in circumference. This tree, with many others of the fame kind, was 

 planted feveral years after the Chefnuts mentioned in Chap. XX.. 



When 



